Waste-pipe plug.



Patenfed July la, |399.

W/TNESSES o WWL UNITED STATES PATENT OrricE.

JosErn n. LITTLE, on NEW vonk, N. Y.

WASTE-PIPE PLUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,196, dated July 18, 1899.

Appiicaeon inea February 24,1399. serial No. 706,677. (no man.)

T all whom it may concern.- Be it known' that L J OSEPH H. LITTLE, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in v the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Waste-Pipe Plug, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in plugs for waste or discharge pipes of washbasins, washtubs, or sinks and the like. With the ordinary form of plug a'chain is used for securing it to a basin or tub or the like. Such chains are not only unsightly and sometimes obstructions, but they are always more or less dirty, the links being covered inside with verdigris'and impossible to clean. Further', a

y chain carries the dirt from one wash to the clean water of the next wash, and this obviously is a serious objection, especially in public places.

The object of my invention is to obviate the before-mentioned objections by providing a chainless plug of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction and having means by which it may be readily and quickly atiached to any basin ortub, whether old or new.

I will describe a waste-pipe plug embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ot' this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a section of a washbasin with a plug embodying my invention as applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a top view of the plug.

Referring to the drawings, l designates a plug of any suitable material-such, forinstance, as a ictile material or metals. The plug has a finger-piece 2, and I have here shown it as provided with a packing-ring 8 of soft material-such, for instance, as rubberso as to make Va water-tight connection between it and the discharge-pipe 4. At one-end of and having swinging connection with the plug l is a keeper-link 5,-designed to engage around one of the members of the strainer 6, arranged in the waste or discharge pipe. This ylink 5 has its upper portion extended loosely through alugformed on the lower end of the plug l, and its opposite sides are convergent until they meet at a point below the strainer, as indicated at 7. Below this point 7 the members of the link 5 are divergent and then extended inward and then upward to form hook portions 8.

In operation in applying the plug to a new or old basin or the like the link will be forced downward over a member of the strainer 6.

In this operation the hook portions S will be,

spread apart, so as to readily pass the meinber of the strainer, as will alsothe members at the point 7. When water is to be retained in a basin or the'like, a plug will be inserted, as indicated in Fig. l. When it is desired to draw the water, however, the plug will be drawn upward until the portion '7 of the link comes above the member of the strainer, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. l, and when in this position the plug will be retained open but the hook portions S will prevent the plug from being wholly detached by engaging with the under side of the strainer member, but

when, however, it is desired to wholly remove the plug the members of the link 5 may be spread outward by any suitable means to allow the strainer member to pass between the hooks.

' While I have indicated the link 5 as having swinging connection with the plug, it is obvions that there may be a rigid connection between the two parts.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentv l. The combination with a waste-pipe plug, of a link attached thereto and comprising two members convergent to a meeting-point in a portion of` their length and then divergent and having inwardly-turned hook ends,.substan tially as specified.

2. The combination with a waste-pipe plug, of a link havingswinging connection with the plug, the said linkconsisting of resilient metal having two members convergent to a meeting-A point in a portion of their length and then d ivergent from said meeting-point'and having inwardly-turned hook ends, substantially as specied. l

JOSEPH H. LITTLE.

Witnesses:

EVEEARD BOLTON MARSHALL, C. R. FERGUSON. 

